'90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. Child life is destroyed. [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. . "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . . By 1935, his followers began to move to Bountiful, Utah, intending to live under a United Order communal program as defined by Joseph Smith in the Doctrine and Covenants. Let's revisit the boastful words of Mormon Church Prophet John Taylor and Mormon Church Apostle Heber C. Kimball, both quoted earlier: -Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. The word dispensation refers to two processes. They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. Brigham Young waited until 1868, twenty-one years after arriving in Utah, to actively promote it, and John Taylor ceased emphasizing it shortly after becoming President of the Church. . on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. First, an overview: --"God's Brothel": A Review of Polygamy's Brutal Underworld Mormon Roots. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. The group also teaches its members that only those with so-called pure blood will survive the apocalypse, according to the lawsuit. . This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. . . ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. . . "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. In the 1940s and 50s, Kingston followers designed and wore unique outer garments, the wearing of which led other people to refer to them as blue-coats. Men and boys wore a blue coverall-type suit tied with strings, while women and girls wore plain blue dresses. . "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. The three marriages between second cousins have produced at least eight children afflicted with fumarase deficiency, according to a report in the May 2000 'Annals of Neurology' (based on the study conducted by the group led by Tarby and Aleck), interviews with doctors treating the disease and anecdotal evidence gathered from the community. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. . "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. . [19] For many years, members of the Co-operative lived in poor conditions, and those in need had no legal way to apply for assistance. Unfortunately, there are also numerous reports of members who lived in squalor in order to advance the monetary gains of the Co-op. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. [31][32][33] During this time, some non-members and ex-members began claiming the practice stemmed from theories of genetic purification held by past leaders. They are coming out of polygamous communities proliferating in Utah because Mormons are unable to face their history or follow sound marriage and childbirth practices. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. '", (John Dougherty, "Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding Among Polygamists Along the Arizona-Utah Border is Producing a Caste of Severely Retarded and Deformed Children," in "Phoenix New Times," 29 December 2005, at: http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html) We've received your submission. . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. "', "'Joseph Smith was also selecting for the "obedience gene." 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. . . "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. While Charles W. Kingston was the first to oppose the Church, the primary mover in the Kingston Group was his son Elden. Some of these marriages will include parents who both are carriers of the fumarase deficiency gene, making it certain that more children will be afflicted with the disease. . a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. "Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. It is these discredited ideas that foster this genetic legacy. This is why those laws need to be enforced. David Kingston is alleged to have married his 16-year-old niece Mary Ann Nelson, who attempted to run away but was apprehended and beaten by her father, John Daniel Kingston. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Sounds like I left a few out, he said after being reminded of how many children he had fathered in that family.[6]. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. . _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. 15, p. 227, -Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. A seventh son, Hyrum Dalton Kingston, is a polygamist but has not married incestuously, according to ex-members. [27] It is not affiliated with the mainstream LDS Church. Below are further horrific details of the Kingston clan's "God-given genetic calamity, brought to you courtesy of Joseph Smith's Mormonism, as reported in the "Salt Lake Tribune" article, "When Incest Becomes a Religious Tenet": ". This denial is hollow considering the record. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . Second, that prophet organizes his followers into missionary forces that dispense the truth to all the world, utilizing the priesthood to perform saving ordinances. . "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. [4] Andrea Moore-Emmett, Gods Brothel (San Francisco: Pince-Nez, 2004), 88. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? . If male, some of these same 'worker bees' marry only once. Indeed, regardless of facing crushing federal government opposition to polygamous inbreeding, true-blue Mormons remain convinced that you can't keep a good man of God down To them, polygamy will be coming back some day, with sizable numbers of the faithful flock confident that its eugenic genetics will return by order of Joseph's Jesus. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders, who control the community, have labored to keep the public from finding out why the disorder is manifesting. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. We recall that Joseph Smith made no effort to implement the law of consecration while in Nauvoo (see D&C 105:34). Several charges of incest would eventually be leveled against various Kingston members. I'd never heard of them, a polygamist, fundie cult where even 14 year olds could . . . "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. Performance & security by Cloudflare. . . Click to reveal . . . "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. Members today wear normal modern clothing, although they are encouraged to be modest and keep a high standard of dress. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. [21][26], The Latter Day Church of Christ is based on a belief in Jesus Christ and the restoration of his gospel in these latter days. 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I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. "Goodman soon made a startling discovery: Tarby's young patient was afflicted with an extremely rare disease called fumarase deficiency. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. . . . Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . soon . Why do we believe in and practice polygamy? ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. Well, law enforcement often tends to look the other way in cases like polygamy, unless specific reports reach the agencies. "Genealogists and especially epidemiologists must be scrupulous in identifying all the wives and children of any polygamist man. lucky . However, the group reiterated its belief that "bleeding the beast" was "abhorent" and was "never a tenet" of its organization. This means all other covenants were of no effect through which source they can. . "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. The Kingstons claim that Elden received a new dispensation is problematic in another way. As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. [1], The Church . . . They are Utah-based, unlike the FLDS where the escapes are mainly Arizona-based. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. . . Over the past decades, the Kingston Group has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system, with wealth in at least 50 corporations in Utah and scattered across the West. . . Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. [49] As part of the plea deal and restitution, the company forfeits rights to a number of assets including their bio-fuel plant in Plymouth, Utah. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' . [39], In 2016, the State of Utah with federal law enforcement raided various properties in connection with the Kingston family or Davis County Cooperative Society with the intention of finding welfare fraud. Early persecution seems to have conditioned Kingston leaders to maintain the utmost secrecy, but third generation officers seem to use ignorance as a tool to enhance control of their followers, especially of women. Kingston was able to name only nine of his thirteen children by a second woman, Rachael Ann Kingston.